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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2024

Lynette J. Chua
Affiliation:
National University of Singapore
Mark Fathi Massoud
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Cruz

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Out of Place
Fieldwork and Positionality in Law and Society
, pp. 209 - 213
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024
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Index

Abrego, Leisy J., 3840
use of acompaniment. See accompaniment (Abrego)
Abrego, Leisy J., out of place
projected by others, 36, 5051
as a Salvadoran immigrant scholar, 36, 41, 48, 54
in white/male encounters, 38
accompaniment (Abrego)
in academia, 3840
conducting interviews in, 49
definition, 3839
and emotional positioning. See emotional positioning
inappropriate uses of, 48
nurtured by activism, 48
in participant recruitment, 4446
presentations in, 5153
in project concept, 44
in research methodology, 4041
writing and analysis in, 4953
agoraphobia, disciplinary, 144, 145, 155
Akala, on proximity to whiteness, 172173
alterity, 144, 153
in Gujurat High Court, 132135
transgression as, 125
autotheory, 3, See also Cooppan, Vilashini; Hartman, Saidiya; Nelson, Maggie; positionality; Williams, Patricia
Ballakrishnen, Swethaa S., 149
Accidental Feminism, 139, 142, 144, 146148, 152154, See ‘local north’ advantages, See fragility, brahmin or savarna
Invisible Institutionalisms, 10, 149150
“long table” methodology, 149150
queer methods in research, 144
research methods, 140
and Sara Dezalay, 29, See also Sara Dezalay
in vulnerability politics, 156
Ballakrishnen, Swethaa S., out of place(ness)
in Accidental Feminism, See Ballakrishnen, Swethaa S.: Accidental Feminism
effect of shifting urban/global/savarna/cis positionalities, 146
gender fluidity, queer identity, and methodology, 144145
and hegemonies, 145146
odd/identity to make legal theory, 149
in privilege. See privilege and positionality
and queer citizenship, 153
queer failure, and being “in place”, 158
research methods, 144145
and shifting identities, 145149
in vulnerability politics, 149
Baxi, Pratiksha, out of place(ness)
during arrival in court, 120122
getting permissions, 122123
in Gujurat High Court. See Gujurat High Court, positionality effects
male secrecy and, 133
in Nyaya Mandir (district court), 125127
in relations with prosecutors, 127128
scolding as pedagogical tool, 125
secrecy and, 124125, 132
secrecy, alterity, and, 133134
Benda-Beckmann, Franz von, 189, 207
Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von, fieldwork
adat, 192195
Ambon, 199
constitutional reforms, 200203
Moluccan women, 199200
Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von, out of place(ness)
Dutch colonial past and, 203204
multiplicity, 190192
benefits of positionality, 713
bridge from positivism to postmodernism, 11
commuicating privileges, 13
connection, 9
creating space for diverse positions, 910
credibility, 9
identifying marginality, 78
in social science development, 1011
Blee, Kathleen, 13
Boittin, Margaret L.
and Mei Jie, Shenzhen madam, 8889, 94
research and fieldwork, 8789
Boittin, Margaret L., out of place(ness)
in China, 9094
and Chinese myths about Western female sexuality, 9294
components of, 8687
inquisitiveness among male academic colleagues, 9698
as a methodological choice, 86
Russia and China compared, 85
in Russian sex industry, 8485
in the sex industry, 9496
as a source of strength, 8586
through fieldwork encounters, 89
Branson, Dave. See vicarious traumatization: or vicarious trauma (Branson)
burdens of positionality, 1722
anxiety and ennervation, 1819
challenging peer review and consent, 2021
reproducing law’s elite status, 22
risk that identity supercedes theory, 1920
Catatumbo (Colombia), 163167, 170
Barí resistance, 165166
Eslava, Luis. See also Eslava, Luis
Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone, 164165
oil’s impact on, 167
plunder, (post)colonial history of, 165167
weather, cultural impact of, 164165
Chua, Lynette J.
resistance, lived experience of, 106108, 110
Chua, Lynette J., out of place(ness)
in childhood, 105107
in Filial Responsibility, Aging, and Law, 115116
Kuching, 105, 117
in Mobilizing Gay Singapore, 107110
in The Politics of Love, 110115
Collins, Patricia Hill, 4, 9, 60
Colombia, 163170
as a trigueño country. See trigueño identity
conventions in academia
anti-qualitative bias, 37
emergence of positionality, 1617
marginalization through methodological training, 37
Coombe, Rosemary, 161
Cooppan, Vilashini, 3
courts, traditional (South Africa). See Weeks, Sindiso Mnisi
critical participatory action research (Torre et al.), 78
critical race theory, 3, 16, 30, 140
cultural politics of emotions, 151
cultural repertoires, 10, 12
role in research, 8
Delazay, Sara, See Ballakrishnen, Swethaa S.: and Sara Dezalay
disconnection, 22
displacement, feelings of. See out-of-placeness
diversity, 29, 151
and state policy in Colombia, 172
emotional positioning
by audiences, 5253
by authors, 5152
emotions, 13
academic bias against, 37
clarifying emotional labor, 47
as methodological tool, 10, 3940
potential misuse in research, 4647
erasure of positionality, 13
Eslava, Luis
power, law, and apartment ad, 175178
trigueño identity in childhood, 167168
Eslava, Luis, out of place(ness)
in international law narratives, 176178
in multiple South identities, 163170
in a world in convulsion, 178183
ethics of fear, 154
exclusion of marginal identities
from early social science discourse, 2
fieldwork. See also Gustafson, Kaaryn
blurring insider-outsider lines in, 85
centrality of subjectivity in, 1011
circumscribed by male desire, 123125, 131135
class, gender, or racial privilege in, 12
emotion and positionality in, 1819, 98101
ethnographic, 7
exhaustion in, 101
feelings of isolation in, 2
identity and positionality in, 59
impact of identity on, 142143
impact on critical distance, 60
intersectionality in, 60
performance in conduct of, 119, 120, 125127
positionality in, 6768, 113114, 116, 160161
trauma in. See vicarious traumatization
Galanter, Marc, 12
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 40
Global North, 28, 112, 162, 179
Global South, 149
identity, 27, 139, 140, 143, 162
and international law, 28, 162, 183
out-of-placeness in, 170
vestiges of European colonialist project, 170
Gómez, Laura, 56
Goodrich, Peter, 126
Grande, Sandy. See precarity (concept); whitestream (concept)
grounded research, 5
Gulf Oil (Chevron) in Colombia, 166167
Gustafson, Kaaryn, 11, 1819
Cheating Welfare, 11
Hartman, Saidiya, 3
Hirsch, Susan, 9, 19
Hoang, Kimberly, 9798
Hoffman, Susan, 89
hooks, bell, 58, 73, 77, 144
annihilation through ‘Othering’ speech, 72
definition of queerness, 139
Houh, Emily M. S., 1718
identification
and trauma, 71
identity, 15
as device of social inequity, 9
as fieldwork strategy, 100
geo-historical formations and, 162163
“lack of”, 180
and marginality, 4
as methodological strategy, 140143, 148
over theory, 1920
positionality in, 5859, 6768
in positionality statements, 1516
and power, 6061
recovering history through, 21
risks of positioning, 2122
temporality and interaction in, 147
as theory-building strategy, 149155
versus positionality, 59
insider status, 15, 120, 194, 206
balancing with outsider status, 26, 58
and cultural repertoire, 12
dangers of category, 21
meaning, 113114
value of declaring, 21, 25
value of sharing, 6
insider-outsider. See intersectionality
insiders. See insider status
interviews, academic job
illegal questions about identity in, 12
Invisible Institutionalisms.and Sara Dezalay, 10
izikhalo (cries/pleas). See Weeks, Sindiso Mnisi
Jing Ye Si (Thoughts on a Quiet Night), 103104
Chua, Lynette J. See also Chua, Lynette J.
out-of-placeness in, 117
Journal of Law and Society (JLS), 14
positionality statements. See law and society journals: author positionality
justice, traditional forums in South Africa. See Weeks, Sindiso Mnisi
Khan, Maryam S., 19
Khorakiwala, Rahed, 132
KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa). See Msingi, choice as research site
Law & Society Review (LSR), 14
author positionality. See law and society journals: author positionality
law and society field
egalitarian beginnings, 5
historical positionality, 57
white male dominance, 6
law and society journals
author positionality, 1416
minority status of marginalized authors, 1415
white/male invisibility, 1416
law, shaping understanding of, 2324, 2829
‘local north’ advantages, 27, 140, 145, 146
Lorde, Audre
logic of feeling and affect, 150
self care, 75
using the master’s tools, 40
marginality. See out of place; positionality
as a creative strategy, 4
Massoud, Mark Fathi
Law’s Fragile State, 8
motivation to study Sudan, 17
positionality in research, 810, 12, 17
Shari‘a, Inshallah, 8
Massoud, Mark Fathi, out of place(ness)
in professional discourse, 1920
projected by others, 12
in research, 8
Meintjes, Louise, 66
Merton, Robert (Meyer Schkolnick), 3
methods, research, 57, 48
academic status and, 1516
affectivity and, 156
emotions and, 51
importance of positionality to, 78
positionality in, 1011, 21
quantitative, and positionality, 17
vulnerability in, 157
(mis)education, 76
Moore, R. Laurence, 24
narrative of universal progress, 173174
absence of racialization, 175
in UN Charter, 174175
Nelson, Maggie, 3
Nyaya Mandir (district court)
architecture and social organisation, 126
objectivity, 6
challenging standard of, 10, 2425
emotional attachment in, 51
expectations of, 5051, 53
masking power, 37, 39, 40
shortcomings, 22
as value in law, 135
white settler colonialism and. See also settler colonialism
odd/identity, 149155
Osuna, Steven, 37
out of place. See out-of-placeness; positionality
out of placeness, 2, 1213
in academia, 2, 1920, 37, 139
and development of empathy, 104
emplacement method (Shklovsky) and, 160161
family, power, and resistance, 115116
in Gujurat High Court, 129131
language as a marker of, 105
and out-of-place movements, 26
as a resistance strategy, 104107
and shifting identities, 145146
as a strategy, 108, 145
and “stupid questions”, 1213
outsider status. See out-of-placeness
position sensibility, 7, 29
positionality
disciplinary function of, 173
positionality by others
in academia, 9698
positionality in knowledge production, 21
relationship to law, 22
as a strategy, 6, 38
positionality in research
burden or risk, 2
definition, 157
positionality statements, 29
absence in canon, 16, 17
in academic writing, 4, 11, 1317, 19
benefits, 6
emotional work, 67
potential harm of silence, 7
potential harm of speaking, 7
search terms, 15
positionality, benefits and burdens
marginality, examples, 4
privilege, examples, 4
positioning by others
in academia, 12, 8, 17
in ‘cowboy’ ethnography, 98
by non-whites, 98
scrutiny of prostitution research, 9192
by women, 98
precarity, 77, 86, 152
privilege
in academia, 2, 56, 1516, 29
of class, gender, or racial in fieldwork, 2, 17
communicating, 1213
denial of, 3
imprtance of sharing, 6
influence on research, 4, 7
interactional, 145146
qualitative research, 37, See also Hoffman, Elizabeth; positionality; quantitative research
disclosing positionality in, 21
power of personal connection in, 89
quantitative epistemologies
shortcomings, 1011
quantitative research
class, gender, or racial privilege in fieldwork, 17
positionality’s impact on, 17
privileged status in academia, 9697
privileged status in sociology, 37
queer identity
global south, 140, 144
queerness
definition of, 139
readers’ reports, 5051
reflexivity. See positionality
resistance, 108, 111, 163
against sexism in court, 131
empathy and, 104
in everyday life, 106107
and human agency against legal odds, 26, 4849
indigenous (Colombia). 165166, See also Catatumbo: Barí resistance
intra-familial power and, 115
language as, 76
power and, 117
pragmatic, 105, 110
Said, Edward, 14, 20
schooling in conventions
in Gujurat High Court, 131136, See Baxi, Pritakshi, out of place(ness)
Scott, Joan, 21
settler colonialism
in Africa, 77
ideals, 77
and objectivity standards (Morgansen), 39
and Salvadoran government, 36
and Salvadoran legal system, 50, 54
Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera, 10
Shklovsky, Viktor, 160161
social location in research. See positionality in research
social sciences
conditions of knowledge in, 4
consequenes of objectivity standard in, 6
outsider-in perspective, 34
positionality in, 160
Somalia and Somaliland. See Massoud, Mark Fathi
South Africa
emerging voices, 78
repressed past under current constitution, 78
traditional courts, 62
Traditional Courts Bill, 61
vigilantism, 63
South Sudan, 12
standpoint. See positionality
status ambiguity (Gustafson), 11
Sudan, 1, 8, 10, 17
trigueñidad. See trigueño identity
trigueño
definition, 162
trigueño identity
colonial origins, 168
past political identity, 167168
trigueño international law
model explained, 163
Turner, Terrence, 205
vicarious traumatization
definition, 6970
or vicarious trauma (Branson), 60, 70, 74, 75
visibility, 157
visibility, logics of, 153
Weeks, Sindiso Mnisi
Access to Justice and Human Security, 61, 63
Msingi, choice as research site, 6263
night driving in Msinga, 6467
research project, 64
Weeks, Sindiso Mnisi, out of place(ness)
in academia, 5960
Black identity and, 5859
critical participatory action research and, 78
gun violence and, 64, 66
in host relations, 57, 6566
identification and empathy strategy, 7577
insights from, 7479
intersectionality in, 5758
in local poverty, 67
others impose, 5960
precarity in, 77
in research, 62
responses to, 6774
through gender, 67
as a tool of decolonization, 77
white fragility (concept), 74
white logic(s) and white methods, 77
whitestream (concept), 77
Williams, Patricia, 3
Winfield, Taylor Paige, 1011

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  • Book: Out of Place
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009338219.011
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